Preschool Quotations

How do you give smart, accomplished, ambitious women the same opportunities as men to reach their goals? What about universal preschool and after-school programs? What about changing the corporate mind-set about the time commitment it takes to move up the ladder? What about having more husbands step up and take the major load?

Why give chemotherapy or even antibiotics to people with end-stage Alzheimer's disease? Keep them pain free and clean, love them but don't automatically try to get the last technology-produced breath from them. Start a preschool program instead or do something about the atrocious state of obesity in our children.

The government gets it right on Head Start. We are providing opportunities for children in underserved areas where parents may not be able to afford preschool so they can begin their schooling with a running or Head Start.

Whenever you start an entirely new state bureaucracy like this initiative proposes, the costs always exceed initial estimates. When that happens, parents of preschool children could be charged a fee or the legislature could raise taxes on all Californians to keep the new bureaucracy going.

When your child stops breathing 60 times a night, you don't worry about what's going on next year or even next week. You put aside thoughts about which preschool you're going to enroll him in and focus on how he's doing right now. It's not the Norman Rockwell relationship that you sign on for when becoming a parent.

Shutting down a program like this really sends a bad message. It makes it look like Truman doesn't care about preschool education and we don't think it's important. And of course, we do.

My dad is into movies, and they let me watch movies. I was obsessed with Monty Python when I was in preschool - I don't know why.

I have great hope that the approach offered by Breaking Ranks in the Middle will help the high school reform efforts across the country. Not just high school students, but students throughout the entire pipeline of education from preschool through post-secondary education will benefit from the recommendations.

I think we'd be interested in looking at other opportunities. Preschool education is growing; if we could provide assistance to other districts, by all means we'd be interested in working with them.

My plan to keep the preschool programs here very strong and to build on other programs for the youth and adult population, ... And to meet the needs in the community.

I think school funding and funding for preschool and college are a major economic tool that the state has let the ball drop on by cutting back.

Middle-income children are being left behind. Children in poverty have access to Head Start. Upper-income parents buy whatever is best for their child -- usually a preschool of very high quality. It's the middle class that's getting squeezed.

We definitely think, in children in particular, that this vaccine is as good or better than the standard flu shot, ... The children who received the vaccine, who were all preschool children, had a dramatic decrease in natural flu.

What we think is most likely is that 3- and 4-year-olds are early spreaders of influenza because of the preschool setting.

We're very excited and it's a very wise move. Putting all the preschool kids together allows us to really concentrate school readiness skills. This will also allow us to provide more opportunities for families.

We had put our son into a little preschool in Los Angeles, and it was just not going well, so we brought him back home. We had every intention of putting him back into a traditional school setting, but we just really couldn't find the right match for him. And then we moved to Georgia and again couldn't find the right match.

At some point you run into issues of space. Let's say we offer preschool to all 3-year-olds, can we come up with three, four, five classrooms?

They (ABC) actually ran a clip for one of the songs and that went really well because they broadcast it during their preschool time slot. That sort of like caught on and we said 'Well this is going well.' So there was a bit of demand there for the album. Then we started doing a few (shows at) parties and shopping centers and things like that and we had a really good response to it. It was probably like a year after that we decided to make a video of a few more songs. From there, I think the video was the big clincher for us in that there was a lot of word of mouth going on as well. The children responded really well to the videos.

The Santa Cruz County Office of Education, in partnership with the Local Childcare Planning Council and First 5 Santa Cruz County, is developing a model plan for a voluntary preschool system that would create opportunity for every 4-year-old in Santa Cruz County. This vision is based on the understanding that quality preschool programs are the foundation for success in school and, therefore, in life.

President Obama's first term in office has been better for intentions than for actual changes in planning and policy. I do believe, and he has several things to this effect, that he would like to provide universal preschool or at least far more preschool for our children.

Compared to many homes, preschool centers are richer settings in terms of enriched language, reading and math, ... The Influence of Preschool Centers on Children's Development Nationwide: How Much Is Too Much?

They are different programs, but they are still dealing with preschool youngsters, ... They are familiar with nap times, snack times and programs that you offer 3- and 4-year-olds.

That preschool is one of the best in the state. Many school districts in the state and other places are modeling theirs after ours.

That preschool is one of the best in the state, ... Many school districts in the state and other places are modeling theirs after ours.

The additional preschool funding is excellent news. Even though full-day kindergarten is a constant priority of the State Board of Education, we recognize it is very expensive to fund on the state level.

Arkadelphia public schools ensure that homeless children and youth have equal access to the same free appropriate education, including public preschool education, as provided to other children and youth.

The fading out isn't good news for the pro-universal preschool side.

I judge preschool teachers and actresses shamelessly. The first five minutes I meet them.

Close quarters, poor hygiene. It just makes for a hotbed of infection in day-care centers. Preschool kids have a high level of (flu) transmission, and they bring it home.

I will do everything that I can to make sure that you have good jobs, with rising incomes, that your kids have good educations from preschool through college.